Pewabic Mine, Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain’s Pewabic Mine, located east of Millie Hill on Pewabic Hill, opened in 1887. This photograph was taken shortly thereafter and facing north, shows the extensive tramway leading from the early wooden shaft. Several ore cars have passed under the tramway and have been loaded from the ore pocket. The men standing in front of the ore cars nearest the tramway help provide a visual scale by which to measure these immense mining structures. Judging from the logs to the left of the picture, the mine’s sawmill must have been located to the left of the shaft.